Thursday, January 01, 2009

I grew up around rodeos. My parents kept their horses at and my dad worked at Benjamin Stables in KC. As a kid, I went to the Kansas City Rodeo, state fairs &amp; the American Royal. Usually during the event, there would be some cowboy or rodeo clown riding a trained Brahma bull (that's BRAY-mah), similar to riding zebras or other wild animals, completely a novelty. Brahman cattle, natives of the Indian sub-continent, are used to cross with beef cattle for leaner meat (correct me if this is wrong!) and for their ability to withstand drought conditions. This fellow (properly, a BRAH-mah) is a Schleich toy, about 3 inches tall at the hump, waiting for his new brown coat on top of my monitor.